H. W. Brands Quotes

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

I'm as conservative as they come.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

I'm a loyal Republican. I support the President [Ronald Reagan] when he's right—and I just keep quiet the other ninety-five percent of the time.

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.

My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

There's an appetite for advancing conservative solutions and not just talking about them.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

We have to sell conservatism to non-conservatives. We have to take our principles and apply them to problems and go sell them to people. We need to show that we have better ideas.

This is my question for conservatives: don't you want to live, too?